Motivational Quotes
Children
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Best Quotes about Children
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Gray, Thomas
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
FeNelon, Francois
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Wilder, Thornton
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Montessori, Maria
That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
Greg Garcia
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Plomp, John
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
Bergor, Ben
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Churchill, Winston
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Crane, Monta
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
Meynell, Alice
Children are poor men's riches.
Ray, John
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.
It's fun being a kid.
Angier, Bradford Arthur
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
W. Somerset Maugham
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
Bible
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Vaughan, Bill
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Updike, John
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
Orwell, George
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Ruskin, John
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Wilde, Oscar
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Hope, Bob
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Greer, Germaine
What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
Landers, Ann
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
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